Happy holidays to all the regular readers of The Skwib (and those of you dropping by for the first time).
We’ll be taking a break from regular posting over the next ten days to enjoy the song stylings of the disturbingly happy dude to the left but we’ll return in the New Year.
See you January 3rd, 2006!
Welcome all to the 14th Carnival of Satire at The Skwib, and happy holidays! Naturally this week brought out the festive posts as well as some of the usual right-skewing satire, but we’ll start with a few things that bucked the trends:
Tommy at Striving For Average was inspired to Connect the Dots…
Barry Welford at The Other Bloke’s Blog brings us a wonderful, gentle satire from a business perspective in Alice In InternetLand
Don Surber at Don Surber suggests that CBS hires a satire-master in The CBS Evening News With Jon Stewart
LYT at Pererro presents an absurd little piece called Repetition
Tech 100 News has a great holiday-themed post about a Man Caught Hacking into Los Alamos Lab Computer.
Madeleine Begun Kane at Mad Kane’s Notables presents Bill O’Reilly’s Faux War On Christmas Song Parody Continue reading…
Yesterday there was a fine edition of the Carnival of the Vanities at Ravenwood. Head over for some holiday reading.
There was also an excellent Carnival of Liberty yesterday, hosted by Searchlight Crusade.
If by “healing” you mean severe diarrhea, crampy intestinal inflammation, colitis . . . and perhaps C. difficile and death by crapping.
Oh, right, there might be side effects too, including taste perversion, genital moniliasis and frequent stools. And no, that last doesn’t mean the kind you sit on at your favourite bar, and I don’t think the first means that you’re suddenly going to start wearing plaid suits.
Today is the traditional day to look back 60 days and say what was good then. This is called the Best of Me Symphony, which you’ll find at The Owner’s Manual. Also, today there is a storyblogging carnival.
Plot points to explore (slide 1)Inspired by:
Hundreds of novels and stories written by Philip K. Dick, born Dec. 16, 1928.
Over at the Banterist, the revelation that Playboy was once available in braille, proving that it is true that some men “only read it for the articles.” And at Novelhead, there was a post I meant to link to a few weeks ago, about a new game called “Dealbreaker“. Fun.
If you enjoy history (and good writing) then you may want to have a look at this edition of the History Carnival, hosted by Frog In A Well. You’ll find more funny stuff at The Conservative Cat here. Also, we missed the Carnival of Crazy yesterday.
Welcome to the Carnival of Satire here at The Skwib. Okay, something has happened. Something important. Since we’ve started posting the “artwork” of the Last Dadaist, Toulouse Le Grandfig, people have become more absurd. Don’t believe us? Just read for yourself…
a4g [Ed. note: What kind of name is a4g? Is that some kind of artificial intelligence? A monkey-loving robot?] Anyway, a “staff writer” purporting to be a4g at Point Five breaks this important story wide open: Iraqi Police Seize New York Times Tanker Headed For Iraq
Tommy at Striving For Average gets us on the silly train by letting us know about the Rampaging Deer.
On a related note, the citizens of Narnia had better watch their cows closely, as Betsy of Narnia Reveals the Ugly Truth.
Buckley F. Williams at The Nose On Your Face shows us how anything can sound like a fundraising report in Zawahiri Gives Upbeat “State Of The Jihad” Address
200motels [Ed. sorry, ranted out.] at Let’s Get Something Straight Between Us! sends along The Third Eye of The Needle – An Original Novella By 200motels (Synopsis). We will let you, gentle reader, decide if this book should be actually written or not. Dr. Tundra has already put in his order.
Dean Abbott at Inspired By A True Story continues the absurdity with Lost. Continue reading…
You’re a mean one, Ambassador.
You really are a heel.
You’re as cuddly as a cactus,
You’re as charming as an eel.
Ambassador.
You’re a bad banana
With a greasy black peel.
You’re a lackey, Ambassador.
Your heart’s an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You’ve got garlic in your soul.
Ambassador.
You are sadly mistaken if you think
we’d listen to you, you stooge …
you’re Mr. Bush’s troll!
–With apologies to Dr. Seuss (and all my US friends who didn’t have anything to do with the ambassador’s intrusion)
Inspired by:
US Ambassador rips Martin over Kyoto
Yep, the new Superman is “super” in all ways, and studio execs are worried about it. I vaguely remember someone telling me that the guy who played Robin on the old Batman TV series had a similar problem. (Perhaps he was cast for this very attribute, which would explain why Robin is “the boy wonder”.)
And while we’re hashing up super heroes, you may want to check out a story from Jonathan Goldstein about what it was like to date Lois Lane after she broke up with Superman. Hilarious. I’ve found a link to a real audio recording of the story, but not that you’ll have to move the recording to minute 43:45 to get to the introduction before the story.
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